This is one of my favorite chapters. It is called Reading Aloud which is one of my favorite things to do, so much that my whole family gets annoyed and tell me to be quiet. While growing up my mother always read aloud to me and I was frequently read aloud to in the classroom as well. The books stresses the importance of reading aloud to children when they are very young or in their primary years because it is when the seed is planted for developing a love for reading. The book talks about the misconception many of us have about reading aloud to older students or higher grade levels. No matter the age reading aloud should be done for students throughout all school levels and one of the benefits listed is increased listening comprehension. It is important to animate the read aloud and engage your students by drawing them into the book. Another tip given in this chapter is to always maintain eye contact. It is also good to create a setting for your read aloud. The best setting is when you sit on the floor at the same level as your students while they sit around you.
AUTHOR PROFILE
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Maniac Magee is a Newbery medal-winning young adult fiction novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and homelessness, it follows the story of an orphaned boy looking for a home in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Two Mills. He becomes a local legend for feats of athleticism and fearlessness, and his ignorance of sharp racial boundaries in the town. The book is popular in elementary school curricula, and has been used in scholarly studies on the relationship of children to racial identity and reading. A film adaptation of Maniac Magee was released in 2003.
Harriet the Spy by by Louise Fitzhugh
It was published in 1964. It won the Sequoyah Book Award.
Harriet M. Welsch is an outgoing 11-year-old girl aspiring to be a spy, who lives on the Upper East Side of New York City. As practice for her future career, she observes others carefully and writes everything she thinks in a notebook. Her nurse, Catherine Golly (known to Harriet as Ole Golly), has encouraged this. It is shown later in the book that Harriet has become so used to writing things down that she cannot think properly without a notebook. She is very rude to grownups and is a disapproving child.
Harriet has an afternoon "spy route" which covers her classmates, friends and neighborhood. Neighbors whom she observes include Harrison Withers, a bachelor with twenty-six cats; the Robinsons, a very wealthy but boring couple; Mrs. Agatha K. Plumber, an indolent divorcee; the Dei Santis, an Italian immigrant family which runs a grocery store; and the Dei Santis' deliveryman, Little Joe Curry, who has a habit of stealing food from the grocery for snacks and to give to a gang of hungry children who visit him regularly.
Harriet's classmates include rich, popular, class bully and perpetual teacher's pet Marion Hawthorne (described by Harriet in her notebook as a potential "lady Hitler"); Marion's second-in-command, Rachel Hennessey; the repulsive Pinky Whitehead; Laura Peters, who has a habit of smiling at everyone all the time; the somewhat pudgy Carrie Andrews, whose father is the Welsch's doctor; and a new student, the Boy With Purple Socks, who is so dull no one can remember his real name, which is Peter Matthews.
Harriet has an afternoon "spy route" which covers her classmates, friends and neighborhood. Neighbors whom she observes include Harrison Withers, a bachelor with twenty-six cats; the Robinsons, a very wealthy but boring couple; Mrs. Agatha K. Plumber, an indolent divorcee; the Dei Santis, an Italian immigrant family which runs a grocery store; and the Dei Santis' deliveryman, Little Joe Curry, who has a habit of stealing food from the grocery for snacks and to give to a gang of hungry children who visit him regularly.
Harriet's classmates include rich, popular, class bully and perpetual teacher's pet Marion Hawthorne (described by Harriet in her notebook as a potential "lady Hitler"); Marion's second-in-command, Rachel Hennessey; the repulsive Pinky Whitehead; Laura Peters, who has a habit of smiling at everyone all the time; the somewhat pudgy Carrie Andrews, whose father is the Welsch's doctor; and a new student, the Boy With Purple Socks, who is so dull no one can remember his real name, which is Peter Matthews.
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